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There is a kind of poetry in Ed Miliband’s magnum opus coming out at the present time. Along with Hartlepool and swathes of the north and Midlands, Labour has lost control of Durham County Council, which it had held since 1919. Miliband’s own Doncaster North Westminster seat is at risk. Keir Starmer’s pursuit of a fictitious centre ground has led the party into a blind alley.

There is nothing to titillate the reader here, unless your kink is cringing so hard that your toes curl at Ana’s repeated use of the word ‘moist’

Community news and notices

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South Africa has a liberal social democratic Constitution, but no truly liberal social democratic political party. Until liberal social democratic politics can sever itself from the ANC, and those last liberal breadcrumbs in the DA can gather themselves up and leave the alliance, South Africa s...

Hard to believe now, but, from 1912 until its demise 30 years ago, the Lincoln Park Gun Club occupied a choice lakefront locale just north of the mouth of Diversey Harbor.

Plans have been submitted to the Tuolumne County Community Development Department for a Dollar General Store in the Columbia area.

By GEORGE BRAINE In a tribute to Prof. Ashley Halpe, his daughter recently wrote about the time he was “forced to give his lectures in a takarang shed”. That triggered my nostalgic memories, of sitting in those takarang sheds, both as a teacher and a student. This is that story. But, let me begin at […]

By Prof. Charles Sarvan   The following is an abridged version of a longer essay: “essay” in the earlier meaning of “to attempt”. Argument generates the heat of emotion but rarely the light of understanding – I attempt merely to share some perspectives on race and racism. The signifier “unicorn” refers to a non-existent animal. […]

When red walls come tumbling down Why “take back control” was on people’s minds long before Dominic Cummings. I once heard a clergyman preach against walls. Halfway through, he got the kids to build a wall of polystyrene bricks right across his nave and then to climb up and look over to see (lo, on a sudden!) that we on our side were exactly the same as them on their side. He did this, I may say, standing in front of the heaviest, the reddest, thickest, medieval-est sandstone walls you�...